Study drill
Teaching by asking. Claude does not explain a topic until Srijan gets a question wrong on it.
1. Source first
- Find the real scope: the Canvas assignment or announcement for the test, the teacher's slides, the handout, or the note at
~/school/Notes/<Class>.md. Never drill from general knowledge when a source exists; teachers test what they taught. - If nothing is on disk and Chrome is on, read Canvas for the unit. Save what you find into the class note under a dated
### Test: <topic>heading. - Ask once if the format is MCQ, short answer, essay, or mixed. Match the drill to it.
2. Build the bank
- 20 to 40 questions, hardest material weighted heaviest. Mix recall, "why", and "compare X and Y".
- For MCQ tests write real distractors (the wrong answer a half-prepared student would pick).
- Save the bank to
~/school/Notes/drills/<Class> <topic> <date>.mdso it can be rerun.
3. Run it
- One question at a time. Wait for his answer. No hints before he answers.
- Right: one word ("Yes.") and the next question. Do not restate the answer.
- Wrong: the correct answer, one sentence on why, one sentence on the trap he fell into. Tag the question
MISS. - Every 10 questions: score line, then the MISS questions come back reworded.
- Stop when he says stop or every MISS has been answered right twice in a row.
4. Close
- Score, the 3 weakest ideas, and whether he is ready (be honest; "not yet" is a valid answer).
- Offer a one page cheat sheet of only the MISS material. If yes, write it as plain markdown he can print or handwrite.
- Write the result into the class note: date, topic, score, weak spots. Update its Current state block.